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Unfortunately completely real, though since removed.

Speaking of wow.

Stooooop thaaaaat. Thiiiis thiiiiing No I don't have anything meaningful to add, I had hoped this topic was dead.

Wow.

Do SI whenever. It's the only worthwhile part of Oblivion.

Hence my utter confusion/hatred/despair over the entire affair.

I mean the forums themselves. url= doesn't work anymore, mainly.

Trust me, this is the only time I have ever or will ever use it. It just seemed actually applicable in this situation, since I assumed Microsoft either said "Windows 8 or you don't get on XBLA" or they shoved piles of money down their throats.

Between MW:O and Hawken, I think I'm set for mechery for a long while. http://www.giantbomb.com/e3-2012-hawken-demo/17-6216/

Haha, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it enough to seek it out for a second watching, unlike all of the other Avengers setup movies which I just catch on TV from time to time, but it has a lot of flaws, and like I said when it first came out, I wish it was just two hours of Thor going around fighting shit. I don't like Natalie Portman.

That's the thing, they're both relatively incongruous towards Nordic mythology (everyone that's a good guy is basically white as hell) so I can't complain about one and not the other without being crazy. The fourth point was more amusement rather than actual annoyance. I was just commenting on the asian guy over the fact that Heimdal is black because there are a couple other black guys in the movie. It is basically all white people though. E: His characters name is Hogun, I feel bad about calling him "that Asian guy". But still, he has like three lines in the entire film, whereas Heimdal is a fairly important supporting character with plenty of cool lines. E2: There's also the incongruities in things like Thor's power of flight via Mjolnir, and the Bifrost working perfectly fine as a bridge one moment but being a planet-killing weapon the next. Admittedly, the second point is explained in the course of the movie, but when Loki uses it as a weapon it starts chewing up Jotunheim instantaneously like some GDI ion cannon. Whatever, it's not a good movie, Avengers is, that's enough.

He's the only one in the entire movie! Not even just the Asgardians, the entire movie! The fact that he is one of the Asgardians just makes it weirder. I guess I can't really complain since I think the people raging about Heimdal being black are insane.

I figured out what I don't like about Thor. - It's not two hours of Magical Norse Mythology Adventures. - When Thor is in Asgard/Jotunheim, he speaks modern American accented English without a hitch. The moment he comes to Earth/Midgard, he's talking in Middle English, shitty Middle English at that. - The final boss of this particular Avengers setup movie isn't a particularly interesting outside force, or particularly threatening in the end. - Inexplicable Asian.

Oh man, I could not disagree harder.

Does anyone else find the fiction/mythos concept of gods as sort of cosmic or deific batteries odd? I watched Clash and Wrath of the Titans in a sitting, and it struck me as either stupid or potentially pointless that a lot of fictional gods have a set limit of power they can draw on. Even the frequently omniscient ones can be drained of power, where I would think it would be more of a lightswitch concept. Switch is up, God, omniscient, capable of grand and mysterious things. Switch is down, mortal, killable, no better than a human. The idea of gods (as they are commonly portrayed) having some kind of Mega Man power meter bothers me. Thoughts, anyone? Concerning the movie itself, when your comic relief is the best character in a movie like that, you have failed. Also amusing is the fact that the guy playing Apollo in this is the guy who played Zeus in Immortals. I also find it hilarious that a world where-in most of the Greek myths are fact, is a real shithole. Lousy with cyclops and giant scorpions every day.

I was just compressing for sake of hyperbole. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perdido-street-station-china-mieville/1100293193 Read the excerpt. If it doesn't come off as about ninety feet up its own ass, then I hope you enjoy it in my stead.

Your edit I will not deny. I tried to read Perdido and go about three pages in before I put it back on the shelf in disgust, so I may not be the best to comment on it, but I think that's enough of a comment in itself. If you like it, hey, what business is it of mine to change that opinion.

"Low-latency, high-precision motion controller: Critical to a satisfying sword fight is fast, accurate response. This is especially important for CLANG given the depth and complexity of moves that are used in real sword arts. Initially, CLANG will make use of a commercial, third-party, off-the-shelf controller that anyone can but today." As for the initial game, think Jedi Knight duel mode. Bunch of people sit around and chat and hang out while two people go at it. Winner fights next in line.

The prose of it doesn't bother you? "It was kind of dark out." becomes "The dreariness of my soul wept callous anger into the veil of the night." It's like he played Max Payne and thought "Fuck, this would make a great book!" It doesn't. E: Wholly applicable. (Keep in mind I feel this way independent of PA, they just give my feelings a good voice.)

Every Tuesday morning, WoW goes down its server list taking groups of servers down for about 15 minutes at at time. Like Twig said, by the time an hour is up all the servers are back online, but it happens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OwsBhZHBr_s

A few days late here, but you don't actually like Perdido Street Station, do you?

There is no bathroom?

All I want to say on Prometheus (I'm neutral towards it mostly) is that Howard Taylor's mini-review got me reading The Engines of God, which is what Prometheus should have been.

He tends to be very full stop with his opinions.